by Bozho | May 19, 2020 | Aggregated, low-code, Opinions, rad, rapit application development
Recently, many low-code/no-code solutions have gained speed in the enterprise, giving non-technical people the option to create simple applications. Analysts predict that the low-code industry will grow by 20+% each year. But what is low-code, why is it getting so popular and what are the issues with it? Low-code is something that we’ve occasionally seen in the past decades – a drag-and-drop UI designer that allows you to create simple applications without coding skills. Products have matured and practically all offer similar features – the ability to design entity relationships in drag-and-drop entity-relationship diagrams, the ability to design UI via WYSIWYG, to design simple processes via BPMN-like notations, to call external services via importing web service definitions and to fetch and store data in external databases and spreadsheets. There are many tools in this domain – MS PowerApps, OutSystems, Appian, Mendix, Google’s recently acquired AppSheets, Ninox, WaveMaker, and many more. And they may differ slightly in their approach and in their feature set, but the whole point is to be able to easily create applications (web-based, mobile-based, hybrid) that solve some immediate pain that these users have, where going through a full-blown IT project with the associated development cost is an overkill. And that sounds great – you don’t have to rely on the overly busy and not often too responsive IT department in your non-IT company, you just build something yourself to optimize your immediate problem and to digitize your paper processes. And it can do that. To be honest, I like the idea of such tools existing, because a large portion of digital transformation is not handled...
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